http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/KazzaK/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from KazzaK en-us Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:54:22 +0000 Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:54:22 +0000 Nothing like lying back in your hammock reading your book while overlooking the night lights of the small fishing village Taganga and then a complete electricity blackout. The four of us just rocked back and forth helped by the strong winds and had some sporadic conversation everything is understated in Techos Azures where we are staying nothing too stressful our main worry is getting a ni http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Santa-Marta/blog-128000.html So there has been a dearth of communication.....the main reason being that Teresa fell on Death Road and had to be flown home that was after five days of hospital in Coroico and hiding the fact that anything was wrong from the duine in Ireland. So between pretending that nothing was wrong on gmail chat when people jokingly asked if we had killed her impersonating her on gmail chat that thin http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/La-Paz-Department/Yungas-Road/blog-125384.html Met the lads in Gareth's hostel had a few bevs before hitting the Crown. Was a pretty lucky night with Ian and Gareth winningGareth won like eleven straight hands at blackjack....either getting blackjack or 21Met Irene on Smith Street after she had just done her first shift with Frank in his new cafe bar. And had also met the guy who one of the characters out of The World's Fastest Indian is http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/Crown-Casino/blog-83486.html Sajjan Garh a former monsoon palace 1100 foot high above the surrounding and 3100 foot from sea level was built by Maharana Sajjan Singh in 1884. This palace is absolutely amazing it offers a panoramic overview of the city's lakes palaces and surrounding country side and you can just wander around inside as you like. It is exactly how it was 100 years ago itrsquos like the family just left http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Rajasthan/Udaipur/blog-68072.html Did the usual Friday night drinks.... http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/CBD/blog-96555.html Before I officially move in Sonnie and Irene pop over to have a look around. Sonnie has a look at the bathroom and exclaims ldquoI didnrsquot know you had moved all your stuff over alreadyrdquo Irsquom like ldquoI havenrsquot Thatrsquos all Ridrsquos stuffrdquo we all look in amazement at the John Frieda So Blonde shampoo LrsquoOreal Blonde conditioner cleanser toner http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/blog-90051.html You have never seen filth like it we crawled out of those mines literally black. After cleaning ourselves we had a lovely dinner in Potosi after braving the hailstones to make it there About 20 for six people....We then got the taxi to the bus station looking forward to our cama bus. Made it downstairs to the bus only to be told we had to hand our bags in upstairs where they were then l http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/Potosi-Department/Potosi/blog-120793.html On recommendation we booked our Mines Tour with Koala Tours. To be fair our disastrous journeys seem to precede fantastic tours Efra our guide proved to be highly highly entertaining including replying to Irene when she had a big head small brain or telling me I could be Monica Lewinsky and knowledgeable which included telling us Potosi miners had no hair on their bodies so Eoin would h http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/Potosi-Department/Potosi/blog-120791.html It seems anything worth doing in Bolivia involves a mission and a half Lucky enough to secure the last three seats at the back on a local know what that means bus out of Uyuni to Potosi we thought we had it made. That was until a man the size of a seat and a half sat beside Irene. Not that he seemed overjoyed to be sitting beside her but made it a point to regularly move over on top of he http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/Potosi-Department/Potosi/blog-120502.html Salar de Uyuni is one of the most amazing awesome and spectacular scenes any of us have ever seen in our lives. As it is wet season the Salt Plains are covered with water creating the most amazing reflections and magical wonderland. Driving towards the salt hotel Hotel Playa Blanca across this landscape of never ending tranquility inspired speechless in all three of us quite a feat. We http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/Potosi-Department/Salar-de-Uyuni/blog-120114.html Not only can Bolivia lay claim to the Worlds Most Dangerous Road but they also def have the worlds bumpiest road Despite being warned by the Kiwi lads about the perils of the bus journey to Uyuni we decided to get the bus....a few bumps sure we can survive that. As it turned out we could have survived the bumps it was the bus being two and half hours late due to flooding should have giv http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/Potosi-Department/Uyuni/blog-120110.html It certainly is the highest city in the world....and you know all about it every time you walk a few steps or in our case when we had to haul ass .... and our fifty bags half way down the street to the annex of the hostel and then up way too many steps.We did have a nice look around La Paz though took in some wrestling in the girls case or as in mine chilled out and eat and drankPatricia an http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/La-Paz-Department/La-Paz/blog-120103.html Altitude sickness me I didnt even consider it But unfortunately two days in bed proved me wrong......The girls meantime had a fabulous time The Point is one of the best hostels had so much fun http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Cusco/Cusco/blog-120101.html Arriving in Lima to be greeted with low flat topped colourful houses men playing frantic football games in run down basketball courts on the side of roads old colourful and dilapidated cars confirmed mental images of South America There is also of course the beautiful tree lined boulevards we also drove down which provide a quiet balance and elegance to Lima.Of course it wasn't as if ou http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Lima/blog-118009.html As all guidebooks say Chilie is very European and a really pretty city to walk around the small shop fronts and sidewalk kiosks giving it away as not actually being in Europe It was a complete revelation to be in a country where bananas are not a coveted good need not be guarded at all times and do not cost a fortune in fact I think all my fruit came to the grand total of 20p. One of Santiag http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Santiago-Region/Providencia/blog-118004.html We thought we would be so tired coming back from Fraser....and we were maybe that's why we went so mental in Beaches.... http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Hervey-Bay/blog-111012.html We literally lay around on the boat all day sailing back to Airlie only moving ourselves to stop for some snorkling and lunch Irene and I decided there was no point in staying in Airlie that night we would go for a few drinks but everyone would really be going home at about tenish anyway so we may as well get the night bus to 1770. By nineish everyone was anihilated and the bus wasn't loo http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Airlie-Beach/blog-111008.html We sailed to Whitehaven beach today to do a bit of sunbathing clean our jewellery and snorkel. Cecelia and I saw sea snakes sting rays a turtle .... so it was worth our time plus of course the fabulous coralWhitehaven beach really is fantastic only spoilt by the fact that you need a stinger suit to guard against dying Mind you Dan and Mike seemed to survive diving in constantly without o http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Whitsundays/South-Molle-Island/blog-111005.html We made our way out to the far Eastern suburbs of Glen Waverly to visit the set of Ramsey Street which is really Pinoak Court.We got a photo with the Ramsey Street sign and got to see Harold acting on set....all boxes were ticked for us http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/Richmond/blog-110998.html So nice http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/blog-110986.html